Plasma/Plasma 6.0 Release notes

New Tars

• ocean-sound-theme

Tars Moved From Frameworks

These will now follow the Plasma releases and version numbers

• kactivities
• kactivities-stats
• plasma-framework
• kwayland

Tars Moved From KDE Gear

These need to be re-versioned to the lower 6.0

• print-manager

Tars Moved From Independent Releases

• wacomtable

Dropped Tars

• khotkeys
• plasma-bigscreen
• plank-player
• aura-browser
• plasma-remotecontrollers

We would welcome maintenance of Plasma Bigscreen to port it to Qt 6

Qt 5 only

• kwayland-integration remains Qt 5 only as its features have been moved into kwindowsystem, this is still released and should still be packaged for compatibility with Qt 5 apps.

Dependencies which need new versions

KDE bits

• Phonon and Phonon-vlc - needs Phonon 4.12 and Phonon-vlc 0.1 which build for both Qt 5 and 6 at the same time
• libqaccessibilityclient - needs 0.5.0 for Qt 6 (Qt 5 builds can be dropped)
• kuserfeedback - needs 1.3.0 built for Qt 6 (and Qt 5 if you want it for Ruqola)
• kirigami-addons - needs 0.11.75 built for Qt 6
• polkit-qt-1 - needs new version built twice for Qt 5 and 6 - TODO release
• plasma-wayland-protocols - needs new version - TODO release

External Bits

• Appstream - needs the unreleased 1.0, get it from Git
• libaccounts-qt, signon-ui (also called signon-qt-ui) and signond - new release needed for Qt 6 - TODO release
• PackagekitQt - use an up to date release built for Qt 6

New Depedencies

• xwaylandvideobridge - while not a strict dependency this allows for Screensharing Wayland apps

New Configuration

PAM config needed for lock screen https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#PAM_configuration https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kscreenlocker/-/merge_requests/163